Bikers Fight to Ride Free -- and Win

Data Show Increase in Fatalities
Among Motorcyclists

By

Joseph B. White

Updated July 30, 2007 11:59 p.m. ET

Phillip Brewer rode a motorcycle during an eight year sojourn in France. When he returned to the U.S. in the early 1980s to pursue his career as an emergency room physician, he says he thought about getting another bike until "this guy's arm got carried in to the emergency room about 10 minutes before the rest of him."

That was it for motorcycling, says Dr. Brewer, now director of University Health Services at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. A former faculty member at the Yale medical school, Dr. Brewer has...